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| - My boyfriend and I were looking forward to this restaurant since it received four out of five stars on yelp. We ordered vegetable egg rolls and two bowls of pho.
1) The vegetable egg rolls were overly oily and the owner gave us sweet and sour sauce instead of the usual fish sauce that we normally get at other Vietnamese restaurants. But that wasn't the real issue...
the biggest issue came from...
2) Pho: Out of all the authentic Vietnamese restaurants we have been to (several at Argyle in Chicago and other places outside of Chicago-NY, VA), this place was by far the worst. First, the soup was too bland that we had to put in a lot of sriracha and hoison sauce -- normally, at other places we've been to, the soup would not need any seasoning because of the already flavorful beef broth (in other words, it was optional to put in the sauce but in this case, even with the additional sauce, the soup was still bad). Noodles were not fully cooked and after a few bites, we gave up.
3) Price: For some odd reason, they charge fairly high for their dishes. You can have far better tasting pho at other places in Chicago for much cheaper price!
All in all, we were very disappointed. Ever since the viet place on Savoy closed, we have been wanting to try other Viet places in Champaign/Urbana. The positive reviews here may have been for other dishes but it is still hard for me to believe that this place received four stars out of five. Usually I can depend on Yelp reviews and they have been fairly consistent with my personal experiences but this definitely was an exception.
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